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Hello Wasabidog,
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They both have the same effect, but accomplish it different ways. Tails and drogues keep it from overflying by adding drag to pull the sail downwind. Tail weights change the angle of attack to a more nose back attitude. Both will reduce or eliminate overflying by not allowing to fly as nearly overhead.
Tails and drogues are much prettier, but in a crowded sky, think festival, the weight will keep you out of being part of the tangle.

Things occasionally walk away here in the US also. There's a-holes everywhere, but:
My iPhone 6 cost me $300 used. My camera cost me $1500 used. I would rather lose the iPhone. I'm lying about the camera, It's only about $500, but you get the point. I would prefer to lose neither, but you have to take the shot with something. Best way to hang on to either would be to have a friend do the filming. I know some people who have set up the equipment inside a locked vehicle and flown their kite in front of the vehicle, shooting through a window.

The windy part of "Windy City" is actually a reference to its politics and politicians. The winds are typical Midwest garbage, much like what you get in TN most of the time, unless you fly a beach on Lake Michigan on an east wind. Most of the time, it's lumpy, bumpy and shifty, occasionally as much as 180 degrees.
If you get up this way, (preferably during the warmer months), send me a PM before you head out and I will make a point of joining you for some flying.